Date (Publication)

2013-01-22

Date (Creation)

0001-01-01

Date (Revision)

2025-12-11

Code

kulturmiljoer

Purpose

The term “Cultural environment” was included in the Cultural heritage act as part of the 1992 revision of the act. As a result of the revision it became possible to protect a cultural environment based on the cultural historical value of the environment, even though the separate elements of the cultural environment were not considered worthy of protection in themselves. To protect a cultural environment according to the Cultural heritage act is a comprehensive procedure, and the final resolution is made by the King in State Council. Protected cultural environments are important to consider in planning as they provide restrictions on the use of, often large, municipal areas. The World Heritage Convention was adopted in 1972 and the primary goal of the convention is to identify cultural and natural heritage of universal significance. Norway ratified the convention on May 12th, 1977. The Ministry of Climate and Environment is the topmost responsible authority for following up world heritage in Norway. The Directorate for Cultural Heritage and the Norwegian Environment Agency have the professional responsibility of following up the convention. The Directorate for Cultural Heritage is the coordinating directorate. Even though the UNESCO World heritage environments are not protected according to Norwegian law, they are particularly important cultural environments that must be considered in spatial planning. The historical towns and villages are now experiencing a comprehensive development pressure as a consequence of the urbanising trends in modern societal development. Urban cultural environments of national importance define areas where particular care needs to be taken in future administration and development. Even though these environments do not have formal protection according to Norwegian law, they provide a basis for the identification of consideration zones according to the plan and building act. The environments can also be grounds for objections to spatial planning.

Status

Under development

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Riksantikvaren	Christer Vinje Gimse	christer.vinje.gimse@ra.no	Point of contact
Directorate for Cultural Heritage		Datatjenester@ra.no	Publisher
Directorate for Cultural Heritage		postmottak@ra.no	Owner

Maintenance and update frequency

Weekly

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Vernede områder

Nasjonal inndeling i geografiske initiativ og SDI-er

• Inspire

• NSDI data

• Norway Digital

• Geodata Act

• Modellbaserte vegprosjekter

• Felles datakatalog

Nasjonal tematisk inndeling (DOK-kategori)

• Kulturminner

Place

• Norway mainland

Theme

• Cultural environment

• Cultural environments

• protected

• cultural heritage

• cultural heritage

• World Heritage

• UNESCO

Spatial scope

• National

Specific usage

The term “Cultural environment” was included in the Cultural heritage act as part of the 1992 revision of the act. As a result of the revision it became possible to protect a cultural environment based on the cultural historical value of the environment, even though the separate elements of the cultural environment were not considered worthy of protection in themselves. To protect a cultural environment according to the Cultural heritage act is a comprehensive procedure, and the final resolution is made by the King in State Council. Protected cultural environments are important to consider in planning as they provide restrictions on the use of, often large, municipal areas. The World Heritage Convention was adopted in 1972 and the primary goal of the convention is to identify cultural and natural heritage of universal significance. Norway ratified the convention on May 12th, 1977. The Ministry of Climate and Environment is the topmost responsible authority for following up world heritage in Norway. The Directorate for Cultural Heritage and the Norwegian Environment Agency have the professional responsibility of following up the convention. The Directorate for Cultural Heritage is the coordinating directorate. Even though the UNESCO World heritage environments are not protected according to Norwegian law, they are particularly important cultural environments that must be considered in spatial planning. The historical towns and villages are now experiencing a comprehensive development pressure as a consequence of the urbanising trends in modern societal development. Urban cultural environments of national importance define areas where particular care needs to be taken in future administration and development. Even though these environments do not have formal protection according to Norwegian law, they provide a basis for the identification of consideration zones according to the plan and building act. The environments can also be grounds for objections to spatial planning.

User contact info

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
			Owner

Use limitation

No use restrictions are provided.

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Åpne data

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Norsk lisens for offentlige data (NLOD)

Other constraints

No restrictions are provided.

Classification

Unclassified

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

250000

Language

Norwegian

Topic category

• Environment

Supplemental Information

A protected cultural environment is an environment where cultural heritage monuments and sites are part of a greater whole or context. A cultural environment can become protected by the king in order to conserve its cultural historical value.

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:25832

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:25833

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:25835

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:3035

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:4258

Distribution format

Name	Version
FGDB
GML
PostGIS
SOSI
FGDB
GML
PostGIS
SOSI

Units of distribution

fylkesvis, kommunevis, landsfiler

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
GEONORGE:DOWNLOAD	https://nedlasting.geonorge.no/api/capabilities/

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Metadata

File identifier

17adbcac-bbb2-4efc-ab51-756573c8f178 XML

Metadata language

Norwegian

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-12-17

Metadata standard name

ISO19115

Metadata standard version

2003

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Directorate for Cultural Heritage		Datatjenester@ra.no	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
English	UTF8